In 2025, 65 US boys were named Nekhi, making it the 2,203rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 5,402 places from #7,605 in 2024. That is 54 more than the 11 boys named Nekhi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,203, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 65. For comparison, it was #11,681 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nekhi in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 8 babies. In all, 226 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 92 babies named Nekhi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 103 US boys were named Nekhi; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 65. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,278 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nekhi ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #900 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.